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DANIEL GEISER, OF WAYNESBOROUGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-POWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,472, dated May 18,1875; application filed March 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, DANIEL GEIsER, ofWaynesborough, in the county of Franklin and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Horse-Powers; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a specification of the same.

This invention relates more particularly to improvements in two-wheeledhorse-powers, such as may be attached to a separator and drawn by thesame team. It is, however, in some of its features, adapted to otherhorsepowers.

My improvements relate to certain peculiarities of construction, to behereinafter designated, for facilitating the attaching and detachin gand transportation of the horse-power.

In the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, Figure l isa plan view of the horse-power set up and ready for operation. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal section, showing by the dotted lines the differentinclinations which may be given to the levers. Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of a socketed bracket used for strengthening the frame, and alsofor attaching the levers; and Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of thelevers.

' The same letters are employed in the figures in the indication of thesame parts.

The horse-power is transported upon a truck composed of the axle A andwheels A and beam B, at right angles, and securely framed to the axle.The beam B has folding legs B to support it when the horse-power isarranged for operation, and give steadiness to the machine, which willthen rest on the two wheels and two legs, B An eye, hook, or

clevis, B may be used to attach the truck be-.

hind the separator. Four posts, 0, are framed onto the axle and beam B,and support the fixed annular metallic plate D, which has headed boltsor equivalent guides D, to receive and confine the inner edge of thecorresponding annular plate E. Four metallic brackets, F, are secured tothe annular plate E, at equal distances apart. These brackets are formedas shown in Fig. 3. An ear, F is turned up to leave a recess to receivethe quadrilateral frame G, which extends beyond the bracket, while theother end of the frametimbers is received into a socket, F in the nextbracket. Three parallel plates, F are also cast with the bracket, toreceive the ends of the levers I in o the different chambers in thebracket, for a purpose to be presently explained.

A supplementary quadrilateral frame is attached to the outer andprojecting ends of the pieces G by bolts, one passing through the angleof the supplementary frame and the timbers G, the other, at one side,passing through the frame and aplate, M, which forms, with the upper andside timbers and side bolt, an eye to receive the lever I, to which thehorses are attached. A series of pins, H are attached to one of thesides of the frame H, so as to project vertically. The levers I haveholes bored through them at I to fit the pins H When they are detached,they are laid across the frame H, the pins H passing through the holes 1to hold the levers on the frame while the machine is being transported.Other pins, H on the opposite side confine the levers and prevent theirslipping off.

The ends of the levers I are mortised, as shown at 1 Fig. 4, to receivethe plates F when the levers are attached by passiu g them through theeye formed by plate M. The ends of the levers fit snugly between theplates F and, by placing them on the different plates, the height of theouter ends of the levers (which rest on plates M) may be adjusted so asto incline upward when the axle rests upon the ground, or to be nearlyhorizontal, or inclined downward, when the power is used standing on itswheels. In the outer ends of the levers I are slots, receiving theoscillating link L, to which the horses are attached at one end, whilethe stay-rods K are attached at the other. These are for the purpose ofrelievin g the levers from strain and transferring it to the rods.

' In order to expedite the attachment of the horse-power to the earth Iemploy two bars, N N, on opposite sides of the axle, and having one endresting in a socket, O, bolted to the axle, and the other carrying aclevis, N fastened by a pin, on which it can turn. Stayrods N are formedwith an eye on each end, through one of which the clevis passes, and theother is intended to engage the hook I, also fastened to the axle. Thebar and rod,

when attached, make, with the axle, a rightangled triangle, the anglesbeing on opposite sides of the beam B. To secure the horse-power it isonly necessary to attach the beams and rods, and then to drive stakesthrough the clevis into the earth. In transporting the horse-power thebeams N and rods N are carried on the pins on the auxiliary frame H withthe levers I.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with the frame formed of the beams Gr, the auxiliaryframe H, attached to the outer ends of the beams G, so as to formdiagonal braces, substantially'as set forth.

2. The auxiliary frame constructed with pins H H engaging the levers Iand bars N, for compactly and securely packing such pieces fortransportation.

3. In combination with the beams G, the brackets F, attached to theannular plate E, and constructed with recesses, one to receive the endof one beam, and the other to receive the outer end of another beam, andyet another to receive the inner end of the levers I, substantially asset forth.

4. In combination with the levers I, the brackets F, constructed with aseries of plates, forming recesses to receive the levers and hold them,in connection with a stationary eye, at different inclinations,substantially as set forth.

5. In combination with the two-wheeled truck of a horse-power, abeam,'B, at right angles to the axle A, and adjustable legs Bsubstantially as set forth.

6. In combination with the axle A of the truck which supports ahorse-power, the adjustable bars N and rods N attached thereto forsecuring the horse-power, substantially as set forth, when either downor mounted.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL GEISER. Witnesses:

E. ELDEN, H. M. SIBBET.

